CeHuNews 85/03   Prof. Alan Gilbert Professor of Geography
	Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP

Academic Record

B.Soc.Sci. (Birmingham)

Ph.D. (London School of Economics)

D.Lit. (University of London)

 

Present Academic Position

• Professor of Geography at University College London

 

Previous Academic Positions

• Lecturer and then Reader at University College London and Institute of Latin American Studies, London, 1970-90

 

• Adviser on employment, housing, urbanisation and regional development in developing countries to Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, UNESCO, United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the United Nations University. Author of report on Colombian economy for Business Monitor International.
• 1992 Business Monitor International on the Colombian Economy.
• 1993 the Inter-American Development Bank on Housing Policy in Latin America.
• 1993 United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT) on rental housing policy in Egypt, India and Nigeria.
• 1993-94 United Nations University on Mega-cities in Latin America.
• 1994 Population and Quality of Life Independent Commission Human resources (UNESCO).
• 1996 United Nations Population Fund on urbanisation prospects in Latin America.
• 1999 World Bank on squatter upgrading programmes in Latin America.
• 2000 Inter American Development Bank on training programmes for housing.
• 2000 Isandla Institute, Cape Town, on rental housing in South Africa.
• 2002 World Bank Institute Workshop on urban management in South Asia, Jaipur.
• 2002 Inter-American Development Bank on rental housing policy in Colombia.
• 2002-3 UNCHS (Habitat) Rental housing policy in less-developed countries.
  

 

 

Books and Monographs

• (1974) Latin American Development: A Geographical Perspective (Penguin Books).
• (1976) (Editor) Development Planning and Spatial Structure (John Wiley).
• (1982) With Gugler, J., Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanization in the Third World (Oxford University Press).
• (1982) (Editor) Urbanization in Contemporary Latin America: Critical Approaches to the Analysis of Urban Issues (John Wiley).
• (1985) With Ward, P.M., Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities (Cambridge University Press).
• (1985) With Healey, P., The Political Economy of Land: Urban Development in an Oil Economy (Gower).
• (1985) An Unequal World: the Links between Rich and Poor Nations (Macmillan). Second enlarged edition published in 1992 by Thomas Nelson.
• (1986) The International Dimension of Social Science Funding (Economic and Social Research Council).
• (1987) With Ward, P.M., Asentamientos Populares Versus el Poder del Estado (Gustavo Gili, Mexico City).
• (1989) (Editor) Housing and Land in Urban Mexico (Center for US Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego).
• (1990) Latin America (Routledge Studies in Development). Published in Japanese by Ninomiya Shoten in 1996.
• (1991) With Varley, A., Landlord and Tenant: Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico (Routledge).
•  (1992) With Gugler, J., Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanization in the Third World (Oxford University Press) (second edition).
• (1993) In collaboration with Camacho, O.O., Coulomb, R., and Necochea, A., In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America (UCL Press and the University of Arizona Press).
• (1994) The Latin American City (Latin America Bureau). Revised edition published in 1998.
• (1996) (Editor) The Mega-city in Latin America (United Nations University Press).
• (1998) La ciudad latinoamericana (Siglo XXI, Mexico City).

Articles and Chapters

Major Research Grants

• 1978-80 Director of major research project financed by Ministry of Overseas Development 'Public Intervention, Housing and Land Use in Latin American Cities' (budget £105,000).
• 1985-87 Director of research project financed by the Overseas Development Administration on 'Housing Tenure in Third World Cities' (budget £49,500).
• 1988-91 Coordinator of research project financed by the International Development Research Centre of Canada on rental housing in Latin America (total approved budget CAD$453,000).
• 1993-94 Coordinator of research project on megacities in Latin America financed by United Nations University, Tokyo (approximate budget US$100,000).
• 1997-98 Director of research project financed by Department of International Development on 'Secondary housing markets in third world cities' (total approved budget £36,790)
• 2000-1 Director of research project financed by the Economic and Social Research Council (Future Governance Programme) ‘The diffusion of housing subsidy programmes: adoption or forced feeding?’ (budget £41,900).
• 2001-2 Co-Director of research project financed by Home Office on 'The dissemination to potential asylum seekers of information about UK immigration and asylum policy and practice' (£96,088).

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